Scarab Club presents Canadian music in chamber series

Chamber Music at the Scarab Club continues its 15th season with a concert featuring an eclectic array of Canadian music written for a variety of instruments.

The program includes Kitchen Cantata, a lively work by Harry Freedman with a libretto by Canadian opera singer Mary Lou Fallis. Marygrove faculty members and Detroit Concert Choir performers Tara Sievers-Hunt and Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt plan to stage this delightful piece.

The all-Canadian concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in Denk Chapman Hall on the campus of Marygrove College.

Come and enjoy works by Canadian composers, including Mozetich, Mathieu and Freedman. The performers for this all-Canadian program are pianists Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt and Mary Siciliano, soprano Tara Sievers-Hunt, harpist Patricia Terry-Ross, flutist Laura Larson, violinist Velda Kelly and cellist Nadine Deleury.

Commissioned by Classical Cabaret with the assistance of the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council

Tara Sievers-Hunt - soprano Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt - piano

Ontario-based composer Marjan Mozetich is a favorite of CMSC audiences. This performance of his Sonata for Flute and Harp will feature Michigan Opera Theatre orchestra members Laura Larson and Patricia Terry-Ross.

Larysa Kuzmenko is a Toronto-based composer and pianist with whom MOT principal cellist Nadine Deleury has made a personal connection. Originally from South Africa, Malcolm Forsyth moved to Canada in 1968 where he was extremely well-respected as a trombonist, teacher and composer.

André Mathieu's tragically short life showed much early promise and he is often referred to as the "Canadian Mozart." He was a tremendously gifted pianist and began composing at the age of four. This performance of his violin sonata features MOT orchestra member Velda Kelly and Oakland University professor Mary Siciliano.

As always, each piece will be introduced by one of the musicians and the performance will be followed by a delicious and friendly reception.

Chamber Music at the Scarab Club is a popular series dedicated to presenting fine chamber music programs in informal, intimate settings that encourage a close rapport between audience and performers. The series includes performances at Detroit's historic Scarab Club, The Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church and Marygrove College. Innovative programming and a connection with literature and the visual arts have assured this small series an important place in the metropolitan Detroit arts scene.